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    in Midsummer Night’s Dream Love and lovers‚ both can be described as many different things. William Shakespeare shows us this in his play‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In this play we see all types of love‚ from passionate love to foolish love. Along with this we also see different types of lovers and pairs. Examples of these lovers come from pairs like‚ Hermia and Lysander‚ Demetrius and Helena‚ Titana and Bottom‚ and Oberon and Titana. It seems that in A Midsummer Night’s DreamShakespeare shows

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream takes place in Athens. Theseus‚ the Duke of Athens‚ is planning his marriage with Hippolyta‚ and as a result he is a planning a large festival. Egeus enters‚ followed by his daughter Hermia‚ her beloved Lysander‚ and her suitor Demetrius. Egeus tells Theseus that Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius‚ wanting instead to marry Lysander. He asks for the right to punish Hermia with death if she refuses to obey. Theseus agrees that Hermia’s duty is to obey her father

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    in The Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare‚ written in the 1600s. The three categorize are romantic love‚ forced love‚ and parental love. Romantic love is when you love someone if a special and stronger way more than a friend more like a girlfriend or boyfriend. Forced love is when you have no choice on who you can love. Parental love is from your parents love and care about you like how parents usually love their child. The love that is mentioned in The Midsummer Nights Dream is mostly

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    Gender Roles Essay 2: In The Combat Zone In “In The Combat Zone‚” Leslie Marmon Silko argues that women should know how to use a gun and arm their selves because women are most often the targets of crimes such as rape. Silko supports her claim by contrasting the lives of men and women. She provides several narratives to tell us about her personal experiences as well as others. Silko seeks to classify how different stereotypes and expectations of men and women portray females as weak. She also explains

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    him -(3.1.16) which is a use of dramatic irony. Light‚ humorous tone The play features fairy magic‚ silly pranks‚ and the disastrous performance of a play-within-the-play by a bunch of wannabe actors. Clever dialogue and witty banter Shakespeare reserves some of the best dialogue for his warring lovers‚ especially Oberon and Titania‚ and even the "rude mechanicals" show clever banter. Deception and disguise Hermia and Lysander try to sneak away from Athens to run away together‚ behind

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    take over the mind‚ especially when they are in love. In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ William Shakespeare explores the true nature of love. Love is a powerful force and illusion‚ which controls people to act irrationally or changes their personality. Love can change a person’s mind and judgment drastically. The characters in the play undergo heavy transformations because of their passion. In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Hermia turns into a different person because of her love for Lysander

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    play where there is a break from the main plotline and is a chance for the audience and actors to relax. Some may argue that the final scene in ‘A Midsummer Night’s dream’ is only a comical interlude and nothing more as it does not relate to the main story directly. However‚ I would argue against this and say that the last scene is written by Shakespeare as a clever way of showing the audience what might have happened to the lovers. Also‚ a common convention of comedies is mockery‚ so the craftsmen’s

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    truth then it’s nonsense and the audience will see it”(Johnny Depp). In Twelfth NightShakespeare shows that love is a blind journey that can cause pain. When you have found your love or are already in love‚ you become a walking zombie; the only thing you see is the good things about your partner and your relationship. When we tend to fall in love we often make the worst mistakes of our lifetime. In Twelfth Night Shakespeare is saying that love makes you not able to see the truth. Viola is a girl playing

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    0 WORKSHEET 10: A Midsummer Night’s Dream QUESTIONS 1. The play has some important ramifications. To begin with‚ the events that take place in Acts II and III in woodland and summer moonlight give the play its name. As we can see‚ the world of magic and the world of the dreams are very important and they belong to a mixture of magic and reality that appears through the whole play. Since the events which happen in the moonlight are just a dream‚ just part of the magic world far from the real world

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    Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream essay Topic~ “Reason and love keep little company together nowadays”. Explain how this quote relates to the play as a whole. “And yet to say the truth‚ reason and love keep little company together nowadays” This quote from act 3‚ scene 1 in Shakespeare’s play A Midsummers Night Dream‚ seems so insignificant when Bottom‚ a simple and silly workman with the head of an ass‚ expresses this to Titania Queen of the Fairies. She has recklessly fallen in love

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